Maayan Strauss is an artist based in New York. Her multidisciplinary artistic practice examines infrastructure, labor, and mundane facilities and reflects on the nature and condition of artistic production. She holds an MFA in photography from Yale University (2012) and a B. Arch. from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2008).

Her recent project The Service Room was realized as part of the Session program Recess. Recent solo exhibitions include Seven Sinks at Andrea Meislin Gallery and I Love The Way You Use This at Louis B. James Gallery in New York. She is the founder and director of Container Artist Residency, an international artist residency that invites artists to travel internationally onboard cargo ships through partnerships with commercial shipping lines. She also founded Sushi Bar Gallery in Brooklyn; and serves as an editor at Art Handler, a magazine dedicated to the behind-the-scenes practices of the art world.

“Container Artist Residency”, itinerant, 2014-present, ongoing. Founder and Director of an artist residency program onboard commercial container ships. The first edition of the project, Container Artist Residency 01, was launched with an open call in October 2015, in partnership with ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. Seven artists were selected by the curator of the first edition, Prem Krishnamurthy and a jury of curators Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Niels Van Tomme, and Xiaoyu Weng and completed their respective journeys in spring-summer 2016. The next edition of the residency will be announced in late 2017.

“Creative Operational Solutions”, Para Site, Hong Kong, December 2016. (Conceiver, Organizer and Artist of group exhibition featuring artworks produced during the first edition of Container Artist Residency. The exhibition was curated by Prem Krishnamurthy and Cosmin Costinas.)

“I Love the Way You Use This ”, solo show at Louis B. James Gallery, New York, May 2015